Friday Fill-in with some rambling

It's spring today! According to the calendar-- and while it hardly looks any different outside, it really felt and sounded like it even yesterday. I heard a whole chorus of birds singing at dusk, and then another whole chorus of them at dawn and it is still going on out there as I write this.

I'm wearing my Ralph Lauren jean jacket for the first time this year and think I *might* pack away most of the mittens and hats that are spilling out of the basket by the front door.

I had some vaguely interconnected dreams featuring aquatic animals last night(or more likely early this morning before the birds woke me). In one, I was with J and R in the "Great Swamp"(yes, that is a real place near here)--actually in the swamp wading around at night with a tour guide. This being a dream, the water was perfectly clear and had a sandy bottom--no swampiness(or mosquitos)at all. And there were hundreds of otters swimming around us and we could pet them. The ocean part of my dream featured a hundred foot long eel swimming alongside me at the town beach-not as pleasant as the friendly otters experience. There was some other part about some abandoned kittens in a condo and the Mafia(shady men in a parked white car and a feeling that they had something to do with the plight of the kittens) but that is about all I can remember now.

I know I am getting deadly boring going on and on about Shamrock Shakes again, but..... last night we were watching the taped episode of Wednesday night's Colbert Report and sure enough, Shamrock Shakes came up (in his "The Word" segment)! I have a feeling that either John Colbert or his writers had a frustrating time trying to get one this week, too. We watched the taped Wed. night Daily Show, too, and I just marvel at how funny and dead on Stewart and Co. are, consistently every weeknight. Thank God for the Colbert Report and The Daily Show, and DVR taping. I could never manage to stay up that late to watch them.

Of course, that means I didn't watch the President on Leno last night, either. I'll have to check the news at some point to see how that turned out. I think Obama should have waited for the new Conan show, though. (and when is Conan coming back?)

Well, this week seems to have flown by--it feels like I was just doing this, but it has been seven days already. Thanks, as always, for the fill-in questions, Janet.

1. Why do we have to_____ work on Fridays?

2. Blogging and filling in the Friday Fill-ins_____ are now habits.

3. I have _____a cat on my lap.(Sorry, Petey, but I'm going to have to get up in a couple of minutes)

4. Until very recently, I had never heard the phrase "______Do you Twitter?" and it _____seems to be everywhere now. And no, I don't Twitter.

5. I have had some worrisome things on my mind, so keep waking up at 3:00 AM and thinking instead of sleeping lately,_____ the way I always do when I am anxious about something.

6. How was I to know _____ you have to get to the place when it first opens, or you can't get your Shamrock Shake or Zeppole. (and that is the last anyone will hear me kvetching about those things)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _____getting the food prepared and out of the way for tomorrow's Four Days After Potluck St. Patrick's Day dinner as well as for the dinner Sunday for my parents, tomorrow my plans include _____aforementioned annual potluck St. Pat's dinner/party with good friends and by Sunday, I want to _____ hear some peepers!(it'll be that much more officially spring if I hear them sometime this weekend)